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Joint Statement Delivered by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, On Behalf of France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Yesterday, in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 2231, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and my own country, the United Kingdom, notified the Security Council that we believe Iran to be in significant non-performance of its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Since 2019, Iran has increasingly and deliberately ceased performing almost all of its JCPoA commitments.
This includes the accumulation of a high enriched uranium stockpile which lacks any credible civilian justification. In fact, according to the IAEA, Iran is the only country without nuclear weapons producing high enriched uranium. Iran has stopped providing IAEA access agreed under the JCPoA.
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Tehran’s Nuclear Gambit Backfires, Exposing A Regime in Disarray
The Iranian regime’s long-running strategy of deception and delay over its nuclear program has finally hit a wall. With European powers poised to trigger the “snapback” mechanism to reimpose all UN sanctions, the clerical regime is facing its most significant diplomatic crisis in years. The failure of last-ditch talks in Geneva has not just confirmed Tehran’s international isolation; it has ignited vicious infighting within the ruling factions and exposed a leadership that is paralyzed, cornered, and left with nothing but empty threats. This crisis reveals a regime caught in a self-made trap, where any move—either retreat or defiance—hastens its own internal collapse.
Iran Protests Erupt as Fearful Ayatollah Resorts to ‘Amputating Hands and Public Hangings’
As Iran’s government ramps up political executions, killing nearly 30 people just last week, activists say the Ayatollah is ‘fearful’ of losing power, resorting to “amputating hands and public hangings” in an attempt to intimidate dissidents in the wake of the 12-day war with Israel. “On July 30, a 28-year-old boy named Yusuf Amiri was killed in Tabriz. Reza Salehi. He was hanged in the city of Shiraz on the same day. Abdul Zahir was killed in the city of Qom.”
“[Many] are young people within their twenties who have been executed by hanging. And in the city of Kermanshah, we saw two other executions on July 29, and on Sunday, this is last Sunday, 13 prisoners were actually sent to the gallows for execution,” Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad, a board member of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), told Express US. It comes amid reports that around 116 prisoners were executed just this month.
Fasa: Two Teenage Girls Arrested for Confronting a Hijab Patrol
A confrontation sparked by a Hijab patrol in the city of Fasa over the outfit of two teenage girls escalated into an altercation and ultimately led to the arrest of the girls.
On Wednesday evening, August 20, outside a café in a commercial center of Fasa, a veiled woman, a Hijab patrol, confronted the teenagers under the pretext of “promoting virtue and forbidding vice”—a state-sanctioned concept used to justify interference in personal dress and behavior. The intervention quickly turned into a heated altercation, where the public supported the two teenage girls.
According to the Prosecutor General of Fars Province, a judicial case was opened against the two teenage girls, who were arrested, formally charged, and transferred to the Shiraz Juvenile Detention and Correctional Center.
Gothenburg: Rally Against Executions in Iran, Marking 83rd Week of “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
Gothenburg, Sweden – August 26, 2025: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) gathered in Gothenburg to mark the 48th consecutive week of local participation in the global “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign. The movement protests the Iranian regime’s escalating wave of executions and systematic repression.
Sheffield Exhibition Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Iranian Political Prisoners at Risk of Execution
Sheffield, UK – August 26, 2025 – The Academics in Exile Association, supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), held an exhibition and bookstall in Sheffield to condemn the Iranian regime’s ongoing execution of political prisoners.
Hamburg: MEK Supporters Protest Iran Executions, Call for Release of Political Prisoners
Hamburg, Germany – August 27, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held an exhibition to condemn the Iranian regime’s ongoing execution of political prisoners. The event aimed to raise awareness about the imminent threat facing five political prisoners recently transferred to Ghezel Hesar Prison, a notorious site for executions, placing their lives in grave danger.
Qarchak Women Prison: The Slaughterhouse of Human Dignity and Forgotten Justice – Part 3
Qarchak Women’s Prison in Varamin, officially known as “Shahr-e Rey Penitentiary,” is today recognized as one of the most infamous prisons for women in the world. The facility was not designed according to correctional standards but rather as a place of humiliation and psychological and physical torture. Originally an abandoned poultry farm, it was later used as a men’s addiction camp before being handed over to the judiciary and converted into a women’s prison without any fundamental modifications. This history itself symbolizes the regime’s disregard for human dignity. The general conditions of this prison – extreme overcrowding, undrinkable water, contaminated food, and infestations – reveal that it was built not for rehabilitation but for breaking human beings.
Warnings About a Wave of Worker Layoffs in Iran Intensify as Industrial Power Outages Continue
Labor activists in Iran have warned about rising unemployment, bankruptcies of production units, and the expansion of informal jobs as the energy crisis deepens. At the same time, the growth of informal work and inflationary pressures on workers’ livelihoods have further darkened the outlook of the labor market. The state-run newspaper Jahan Sanat, on Monday, August 25, in a report warning about the consequences of the energy crisis on employment in Iran, wrote that electricity shortages and repeated blackouts in factories have “shut down the engine of the economy” and pose a serious threat to jobs and production.
Iran’s Social Security System on the Brink: A Looming Economic and Social Explosion
Official figures reveal that more than 4.3 million retirees in Iran directly receive pensions from the Social Security Organization. Including their families, the number of dependents exceeds 15 million people—nearly one-fifth of the country’s population. Projections indicate that within five years, the number of pensioners will rise above 7.5 million, making nearly a quarter of Iran’s population reliant on a system now “racing toward bankruptcy.” The Social Security Organization currently spends around 95 trillion tomans monthly on pensions and 25 trillion tomans on healthcare services. Yet its revenues fall short by more than 20 trillion tomans each month. On top of this deficit, the regime has left behind an ever-growing mountain of unpaid debts to the organization. Even emergency cash injections from the government are no longer sufficient to prevent collapse.
Iranian Regime Enters a New Turbulent Era Marked by Factional Infighting and Social Explosiveness
The clerical regime in Iran is entering a new and turbulent era following the recent 12-day war, an era marked by accelerating instability, intensifying factional rivalries, and the growing specter of social upheaval. Every day that passes, the regime finds itself pulled deeper into a vortex of contradictions, facing a crossroads between rehashing its bloody past or heading toward outright defeat.
This reality has now become undeniable even to insiders and supporters of the regime itself. The open disputes among the regime’s judiciary, its so-called reformist camp, and various media outlets reveal a system consumed by fear of collapse.
Iranian State Media Admits Regime Faces Soviet-Style Collapse Over Foreign Spending
A striking article published on August 25 by the Iranian regime’s state-run daily Jahan-e Sanat has revealed deepening concerns within the establishment over Tehran’s unsustainable financial commitments to its proxy forces and bloated domestic institutions, even as millions of citizens are stripped of subsidies. The paper drew a direct comparison between the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev and today’s Iranian regime, noting that the USSR collapsed after it was forced to choose between sustaining its own people or maintaining costly foreign commitments. “The resources obtained from oil exports no longer suffice for timely and adequate payments to the people, making other expenditures extremely difficult,” the daily admitted.